Halloween histies!

[fishorama]

I came home with 5 botia histrionicas tonight :woot:! I'm very excited :dance:, they're only about 3 cm (1.5 inch). They're all over my 20g long quarrantine tank. I wish I had a camera but I keep spending all my $$ on fish & a new boiler to heat my house, no camera funds left :headshake2:. But loaches are so much more fun :evil_lol: ! My LFS should get more next week but I'm too hyped to wait :lol2: !

[snoopy65]

Awesome! What do you mean you would rather keep warm than buy a camera so we all can see pics??? You have to set better priorities!:lol2::thm::D:joke:

[jpappy789]

PICS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[fishorama]

I'll take camera donations...what's the least expensive fish-idiot-proof camera? (ok we gave back our hand-me-down Olympus, too out of date for our computer & way too frustrating). I fear we're hopeless...but not loachless :mwave:

[cam191919]

woot, i just got 6 pygmy cories. Halloween bottom dwellers!!

[Lupin]

Cool Nancy!:D So when are you getting the nastier species?:naughty:

[jpappy789]

If you post a google images pic so I don't have to search...I'll forgive you :D

[Lupin]

If you post a google images pic so I don't have to search...I'll forgive you :D
Slacker.:rofl:

[fishorama]

Here ya go jpappy http://images.google.com/images?q=botia%20histrionica&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Mine don't have the dash & dots pattern, just stripes. I was told there are 2 types but age may change them like some loaches. It'll be fun to see what happens, I have a sid female that's almost entirely dark now.

[jpappy789]

Slacker.:rofl:
So? Wanna fight about it?!:silly:


Here ya go jpappy http://images.google.com/images?q=botia%20histrionica&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Mine don't have the dash & dots pattern, just stripes. I was told there are 2 types but age may change them like some loaches. It'll be fun to see what happens, I have a sid female that's almost entirely dark now.

Those are beautiful fish :grinyes:

[fishorama]

Thank you! I'm a tiny bit freaked out, I can only find 4. I know loaches can be good hiders but there's not that many places to go. Unless he travelled pretty far it's not on the floor, or the filter. I did find a crimson in the powerhead outlet before I moved it but no histy when I shook it. I'm afraid to turn it on.

The 4 have been dancing up a storm on the computer side of the tank. Maybe at dinnertime the MIA will show up. Fingers crossed.

[PsyKick]

I wouldn't worry too much about them
I recently moved all of my loaches (zebras and kuhlis) into a different tank, tore down and rescaped the tank they were in (it now contains RCS's from epicfish, and cardinal tetras from LFS) only to discover 3 days later when i fed the cardinals and shrimp, a kuhli munching on flakes. How he managed to not only escape getting moved, but also survive a teardown and rescape.....I have no idea....

Anyway moral of the story is, even when there are only a few hiding places, loaches will find a way...

[fishorama]

He's back! Whew! Missing all day so he must be hungry. Bet he's sorry he missed bloodworm breakfast, dinner will not be as special. There are only 3 rocks in this Q tank, maybe he was in the PH.

PsyKick, I know what you mean about kuhlis! I have a couple in a Q & I dread trying to catch them. I left them when I got fork tailed loaches but it's way past time to move them all. They've gone from tiny skinny little things to the size of my others in a about 3 months.

[PsyKick]

The easiest way for me to catch them (although I guess I did miss one) is to get a big net, and flip it so that its blocking the tank lengthwise, and then chase the kuhlis into it with a small net. Way easier to catch them that way than just trying to scoop with one net...

Glad your guy is back out!!!
Im sure he wont hide anymore once you feed them again with bloodworms!

[fishorama]

Thanks Psykick! The fork tails (vaillantella maassi) seem kinda like slo-mo pangios so I'm hoping they'll be easier to catch but I appreciate the tips. I have to move the tanks for some electrical work, more tanks of course . Only 4 loaches are out today :devil:, little cuties, driving me crazy already :grinyes:.